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JOHH J01T18 A1TO I XT CHARLES O. AifES. We had a tiff: “John Jonee,” said I, “ you ahould’nt leave your cow at large I” “ Ton mend your fence 1” wat hie reply; And so ran charge and counter-charge. j; the cow had cropped Blade* of gras*, some heada of grain; And yet for this a friend I dropped, And wrought for both a lasting pain I knew that I bad played the fool, yet thrust my better thought aside,- . And when my blood bad time to cool, tUeetne S greater foal through r.rid*. Upon two houses a shadow sate; Two cordial wives grew shy and cool; Two brood* of children learned to hate, Two parties grew in church and school. -John Jones’s pew was next to mine $ What pleasant greetings passed between I As sacred as the bread and wine Bad our communing friendship been. ■Oft had our volees swelled the song; Oft had we bowed in silent prayer, And ebared the worship of the throng Who sat in heavenly places there. But bow shall souls In exile sing The Lord’s sweet song f The holy notes Of fellowship, snd joy, snd peace. And pardon, Btuck In both our throats.. Some lessened relish for all good, Made life for both to deaden down; And nature darkened to her mood, And answered back our settled frown. One summer eve I sat and smoked; Good Doctor Deane came riding by; Be eaid, In voice a little choked, “ John Jones is hurt, snd like to die.” A sudden Are shot through my brain, And burned, like tow, the sophist lies; And on my heart a sudden pain Fell, liko a bolt from bidden skies. 1 I stumbled o’er the threshold where Mv shadow had not passed for years; I felt a shudder in the hand A woman gave me through her tears. When he no more the pulse could feel, I saw the doctor turn away; Some mighty impulse made me kneol Beside the bed as if to pray. yet not tbe Maker’s nsme I called , As one who plunges ’nesth the wave, A swimmer strong and,unappalled, Intent a drowning life to save; So all my soul’s up-gathered dowers, In anguish of desire intense, Sent that departing one a cry That leaped the abyss of broken seuse. Back to the dim eye came a ray, O’er the white face a faint smile shone; I felt, as ’twere a spirits touch, , The stiffened fingers press my owa. O, resurrection power of God,. Which wrought that miracle of pain From buried hearts tore off the shroud, And mado dear friendship live again. Beside one grave two households stood And, weeping, heard the pastor say, <• That out of death He brlngeth life, And out of darknesB cometh day.” 2 Was I chief mourner In the train ? ’ Ab, who conld guess of all the throng The strange, sweet comfort In the pain Of one who mourns forgiven wrong ? HOLYOKE’S HOLOCAUST. The Human Burnt Offering in a Pine Church. ^ One of the moat terrible disasters in the history of Massachusetts occurred on the 28th, in the burning of the French Catholic church at South Hol yoke, during the evening service, and involving the death of sixty-six men, women and ohildren. The olmrch society was established about seven years ago, and Father Dufresne had been the only pastor. The parish included all the French Gatbolics of the oity, whose number is estimated at from 2,000 to 2,500 persons. The church was erected in 1870, ENTIRELY OF FINE ; was about one hundred feet by sixty; two stories, with galleries on the sides and north end about twenty-five feet wide. There were two doors in the north end and the vestibule, from which two doors opened into the body of the church. The galleries opened into the -vestibule. At the rear end was another door by which a few persons escaped. Immediately upon the breaking out of the flam— all the occupants of the galleries rushed to the east door, and falling upon one another ohoked up the doorway with their BODIES PILED IN ALL WAYS seven or eight deep. Here most of the lives were iosi. f rom ibis mass Chief Mullen rescued one young woman after- having taken off two dead bodies from •above her. The chief and others had their clothes almost burnt from them, and were badly burnt about the hands. In tike rear of the church was the priest’s residenoe, which was also de stroyed. The walls were pulled down after the fire was nearly put out One 'woman lamped from the highest window down upon the front stops, breaking her am. A man with TWO CHILDBEN IN BIB ABBS jumped from a window and •One poor woman enveloped in flam- shrieked out—"For God’s sake, save me,” and she was dragged out. TBE BEBO OF THE DISASTER was John Lyncb, a brave fireman, who was the first to respond to the alarm. He describes the scene when he reached tbe burning church as appalling. Wedged tight and immovable in the doorways was a dense mars of humanity from six to eight feet in height, none of them able to stand upright from the terrible pressure of the crowd behind, while npon and over them a sheet of fire rolled like a wave streaming far oat into the open air. Without a moment’* pause to consider tnoir danger, Lynch and chief engineer Mullen rushed into the flames, spurred on by piteous cries— "For God's Bake oome and help us,” and began pulling out bodies. A moment later and a well directed hy drant stream from Mt. Holyeke struck the brave rescuers and undoubtedly saved them from being burned alive. The first persons drawn out were burn ing, but they passed directly through the stream of water and the flames were extinguished. Some of the poor crea tures fell fainting on the long flight of wooden stairs leading down to the street and few were able to walk. By this time the entire fifce depart ment had arrived, and worked with snch energy and will that when the fire was extinguished the charred wooden walls of the structure were standing, and were pulled down by the ho*, k and ladder men in order that search for the bodies might be made. Only a very few moments com; elapsed after the water struok the buuding before the fire was, or* but the destruction of life during that brief period waB terrible. 'Some sprang from the gallery windows and were seriously injnred, and one person appeared at a window. COMPLETELY WRAPPED IN FLAMES, and after tottering there an instant fell to the ground dead and unrecognizable. Hundreds of men went to the wreck as soon as opportunity offered, to search for bodies, and a force of police was organized to keep back the large crowd whioh had gathered. The greater num ber of bodies were found in the fatal entry way burned, some of them to |a crisp. The body of one woman was found in the pew she had occupied, her clothing entirely burned off. A fleshy woman who weighed some 180 pounds, was dragged soreaming from the mass. She was carried a short distance fiom the ohuroh and placed on the grass, while the FLESH ACTUALLY PEELED OFF, of her back. In a moment she fell over dead.' The scenes last night and to-day in the school-house basement, where the bodies of the dead were carried, were heart-rending in the extreme. In some instances the features were dis torted as though extreme agony had been suffered before death, but many looked ealm as though smothered. All were blackened with smoke. Some were burned beyond the possibility of identification, nothing remaining but the trunk. Louis Desjemen, 5i years old, whose wife and daughter were both burned to death, BECAME INSANE to-day from grief, and cried oontinually in agonizing tones, “ Oh my Julie t my Julie 1” Some were taken out alive who were under others who were dead, and owed to this fact their own salvation. One of the most protracted eases of suffering was that of Mary Desjemen, who, burned past all recognition and blind, some how found her way to a hill north of the church and wandered around there about twenty minutes be fore she was found and taken to Her home, where she died about 11 o’clock this morning, having lingered fifteen honrs in fearfnl agony. The fate of Immenie Menser and her lover was a touching event of the fire. She was organist for the evening, in the absence of the regular one. and was out off from escape. Her lover escaped, but, fMing she was still within, turned bade and shared her fate. A REVISED LX8T OF THE VICTIMS. The latest revised figures give: Dead, 71: fatally burned, 22: other vise burned art wounded, 27. Of the 71 dead, 55 are females art 16 males. -An Arkansas youth -me to Ms "Whar’s big butch, little butch, the the one I enuff to sot any . without you've lost 'em.* How to Avoid Contagious Diseases* By contagious diseases are meant such as may be propagated by touch, or by being in the direct presence of the pa tient himself, or from some material derived from him, snch as soarle> fever, small-pox, eto. Infections diseases are produced by some noxious matter in the byth^body itself; of such ore ague, ty phoid fever, eto. In the latter olass of diseases the necessary precautions are to fry and change the character of the surrounding air by enforcing strictly litary laws, which is in a great mess- i different from the oonrse to be taken in avoiding contagious diseases. This consists chiefly in the shunning of all unnecessary oontaot with the sick and ip destroying all noxious material they may create. Whenever we aee a person sick with a contagious disease no excessive fears should be allowed to occupy the mind; it is wholly needless, and, more than this, it predisposes the system to the disease it so much dreads by dimin ishing its tone. A good plan is to eat or drink something before entering the siok-room, as it is supposed that when the stomach is acting the catching poi son is to a certain extent repelled; hence after meals would be the time to choose. Some thfak or believe that the virus of a sick-room is introduced into the system through the spittle ooming in oontaot with the poisoned air and then swallowed. Therefore, it would be well to ejet and not to swallow it. Oleanl-f ness is a good preventive to contagion; those exposed should take a bath morn ing and evening; also change clothes dally. After leaving the sick-room take a brisk walk, as this will excite nerve foroe and air the olothes. It is not well to sleep in the room with a person hav ing a contagious disease. Therefore, when o*lled upon to watch a night with the sick—which every humane person is, and others ought to be willing to do —it is well to take a book and try and keep awake all night. For when asleep the system is relaxed, thus offering less resistance to oontagion. Certain odors are also sometimes beneficial as pre ventives—as camphor, hartshorn, vine gar and many other substances, al though modem science has branded them as popular delusions. Science has introduced disinfectants, whioh deserve great merit. Of these the oarbolio acid is deemed best of all; an ounce may be put in a gallon of water, and then used by sprinkling. Among others always at hand are wood charcoal, quick-lime, and fresh earth.— Cor. Rural New Yorker. The Cotton Worm. Dr. A. R. Grote advances a somewhat novel and at the same time encouraging theory in regard to the cotton worm, so injurious to the agricultural interests of the southern states. The result of care ful inquiry into its history has led him to the inference that it is in reality a native of south and central America, that its appearance in tbe United States is the result of immigration from the south, and that it dies out every year with its food-plant, the eggs whioh it lays not ooming to maturity, being killed by the inolemenoy of the weather. He finds testimony that for many years after the introduction of the ootton plant into the southern states , the cot ton worm did not appear, and that its existence in southern Alabama but little preceded the late war. It is, however, oapable of extended flights, as it has been observed in the eastern states, end also at Buffalo and Chicago. The sup ply of the insect is, therefore, main- tuned every year by means of flights from the south, which are somewhat capricious, and may be diverted out of their course by powerful currents of wind occurring "t the time of their inference uawu from these facie by L*r. Grote is that the process of arti ficial extermination may be simplified by limftihg the period during whioh it oan be suooessfully attacked, by, doing away with a certain .class of pro posed remedies. The agent employed to destroy the worm must be vised against the first brood, as they appear, in spy given locality, daring its pro gress northward, and that, to be effect- ual, tL* action most be oonoertedin the application of the remedial sgeni MraaqLgyte agricultural interest. S HE- { USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Dampness will cause honey to become thin and watery. To make green gold, melt together nineteen grains, pure gold and five grains pure silver. The metal thus prepared has a beautiful green shade. , Five parts of sifted whiting mixed with a eolation of one part glue, togeth er with a little Venice turpentine to ob viate the brittleness, makes a good plastic material which may be kneaded into figures or any desired shape. It should be kept warm while bring work ed, It becomes as hard as stone when some parts of the country, there have been large numbers of the orchard or tent caterpillars which have left their rings of eggs on the young twigs. If these are now out off with a dipping pole, it will prevent in every instance a large neat of caterpillars, and be much more easily done than after the latter have grown. . Unless the month is frequently and carefully cleansed, it becomes infested with vegetable and animal parasites, These cause decay of the teeth. Soap is the best material for preventing the development of the fungi and for neu tralizing the arid. Precipitated chalk mixed with the soap assists the cleans ing action. The German washerwomen use a mixture of 2 ozs. tuipentine and 1 oz, spirits of ammonia well mixed together. This is put into a. buoket of warm water, in which j lb. soap has been dis solved. The olothes are immersed for twenty-four hours and then washed. The cleansing is said to be greatly quickened, and two or three rinsings in oold water remove the turpentine smell. Among some uneduoated people there is a superstition that the ticking noise made by a little inseot popularly called the "death-watch” forebodes a death in the house. This little creature is a beetle of the timber-boring species. The tick is only a call one to another, and if not answered it is repeated. It is produced by the beetle luting itself upon its hind legs and beating its head against the place where it is standing. In old honses these insects may be heard rapping all day long. In using Paris green to exterminate the potato bugs, the poison should be mixed with the cheapest grade of flour, one pound of green to ten of flour. A good way of applying it to the plants is to take an old two-quart tin fruit oan, melt off the top, and put in a wooden head in whioh insert a broom handle. Bore a hole in the head, also, to pour the powder in, and then punch the bot tom full of holes about the size of a Ho. 6 shot; Walk alongside the rows when the vines are wet with dew or rain, and make one shoot at each hill. To Remove a Ring from the Finger. —In case a finger-ring becomes too tight to pass over the joint of the finger, the finger should first be held in oold water to reduce any swelling or inflam mation. Then wrap a rag soaked in hot water around tue ring to expand the metal, and lastly soap the finger. A needle threaded with strong silk can then be passed between the ring and finger, ana a person holding the two ends and pulling the silk, while sliding it around the periphery of the ring, will readily remove the latter. The alloy popularly known as oroide, from whioh a large number of cheap watches, chains, and trinkets are now manufactured, is made of pore copper 100 parts, tin 17 parts, magnesia 16 parts, sal smmoniao J part, quicklime J part, tartar of commerce 9 parts. The oopper is first melted, then the magne sia. sal lime, and tartar in powder ace added little by little art briskly stirred for half an hour. The tin is lastly mixed in in grains until all is fused. The erueible is covered, tad the fusion maintained for 85 minutes, when the dross is skimmed off and the alloy is ready for Oatebfillabs.—The tent caterpillar, eggs of which encircle the small twigs in rings of 400 to 500 each, fa most easily destroyed before it hatches, or early iff spring. Gat them off and bon them. In an extensive plantation, we sensed an aotive man to pass through wing art dear them out. He _ _ about 3.000 nests mt wo days, thus preventing ths hatching of ovei a of ngp mon tMi all ths birds in the township would have dons rhrtnlrim. Llsoem parts of ths S sooner they are looked aftJc^hs